1865 in literature

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... 1855 ^. 1856 ^. 1857 ^. 1858 ^. 1859 ^. 1860 ^. 1861 ... 1862 1863 1864 -1865- 1866 1867 1868 ... 1869 ^. 1870 ^. 1871 ^. 1872 ^. 1873 ^. 1874 ^. 1875 ... In poetry: 1862 1863 1864 -1865- 1866 1867 1868
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The year 1865 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

April 14 - Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: President of the United States Abraham Lincoln is shot while attending a performance of the farce Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, dying the following day.
June 9 - Charles Dickens is involved in the Staplehurst rail crash in England.
July 4 - Lewis Carroll's children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published by Macmillan in London for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Carroll).^[1]^[2] He and his illustrator, John Tenniel, withdraw this edition, and the first trade editions are published in December (dated 1866), that published by Appleton in New York using the rejected sheets from the earlier printing.
November 18 - Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York weekly The Saturday Press.
Publication of Leo Tolstoy's 1805, an early version of War and Peace, begins in the magazine Russkiy Vestnik.
English writer Edwin Abbott Abbott becomes headmaster of the City of London School at the age of 26.
Karl May begins a 4-year prison sentence for thefts and frauds at Osterstein Castle (Zwickau).
Our Young Folks, an American periodical for children, publishes its first issue.

Annals of Joseon Dynasty (final volume)
Matthew Arnold - Essays in Criticism
P. T. Barnum - The Humbugs of the World
Jacob Grimm - Deutsche Sagen
Karl Marx - Value, Price and Profit
John Stuart Mill - Examinations of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy
James Hutchison Stirling - The Secret of Hegel: Being the Hegelian System in Origin Principle, Form and Matter
James Hudson Taylor - China's Spiritual Need and Claims

↑ 1.0 1.1 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. p. 286. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1865". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.

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